Suku 'want' subcategorizes for nonfinite complement clauses, as seen by the inability of the complement clause to take tense marking or be independently negated. The clause may contain an overt subject, not coreferential with the matrix subject, showing that suku is an ECM (exceptional case-marking) verb - the only such verb in Berbice Dutch (see discussion in Kouwenberg's 1994 grammar, pp. 347–353).